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COMBINED BULING MACHINE AND PRINTING PRESS;

No. 366,972. I Patented July 5, 1887.

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COMBINED RULING MACHINE AND PRINTING PRESS.

No. 365,972. v Patented July 5,1887.

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COMBINED RULING MACHINE AND PRINTING PRESS.- No. 365,972. Patented July 5, 1887.

UNITED STATES AENT F FlClEa JAMES DALE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED RULlNG-MACHINE. AND PRINTING-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,972, dated July 5, 1887.

Application filed July .29, 1856. Serial No. 208.770. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES DALE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and Improved Combined Ruling-llfaehine and Printing-Press; and I herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

It is my object to provide a machine upon which the two operations of ruling the paper and printing upon it, steps which have hitherto each constituted a separate or disconnect-ed job, may be performed in one continuous operation.

To this end my invention consistsin the general construction of my improvement, and it also consists in certain details of construction and combinations of parts, all as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of so much of my improved machine as is necessary to show the novel and cooperative parts and illustrate their operation; Fig. 2, a broken side elevation showing the throw-off device; Fig. 3, a broken sectional View of the same, taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a perspective view of a detail; Fig. 5, a section taken on the line 5 5 of Fig. 15 Fig. 6, abroken sectional view of a detail shown in Fig. 5, but enlarged; Fig. 7, a perspective view of a detail shown in Fig. 1, but enlarged; and Fig. 8 a longitudinal sectional view of the entire ma- .chine.

A denotes the gage or gate of a ruling-machine, B the pens and beam, and C the beltshifter, all of common.construction, and arranged to operate in the usual manner with other parts of the machine, which are old and require no further description.

D is a type-cylinder of peculiar construc tion, and E is the impression-cylinder supported to rotate directly belowthe cylinder D, which is supported upon a shaft, F, having its hearings in the frame of the machine and carrying atone end the belt-wheel F and the gear-wheel F, which engages with the pinion on the shaft of the vibrator H. The ink-rolt ers G are supported in journal-bearings G, Fig. 4., comprising each a horizontal troughshaped receptacle, 1", on a vertical extension, r, slotted, as shown, to permit its vertical adjustment upon the set-screws which secure the hearings to the frame M of the machine. The cylinder D is preferably formed, as shown in Fig. 1, in cylindrical sections, adjusted together on the shaft F, whereby it may be used as a continuous cylinder or only certain separated parts thereof may he used as and for the purpose hereinafter described. This cylinder may, for the sake of the lightness, be hollow, and it is provided around its surface with numerous apertures t, to serve a purpose hereinafter described. The type or other form I is adjusted in any desired position upon the fornrcylinder D by means (as shown in detail in Fig. 7) of screw-bolts s, inserted into the apertures t,and provided in their heads 8' with preferably, two transverse openings, 3, crossing each other, to receive adjusting-screws c, which confine and hold the form, as shown in Figs. 1 and 7, and permit its ready adjustment to any required position to correspond with the ruled sheet conveyed to it from the rulingmachine.

The cylinder D is provided nith a throwoff device of common construction in printing-presses and comprising an eccentric or cam, K, on the end of the shaft F, within an adjustable box, q, in the frame of the machine, and having an arnup, which extends from it, a lever, L, pivotally connected with the end of the arm ,1 by means of a link, 1), Fig. 1, and provided with a handle, 0, and spring pawl 0 to engage with the teeth of a rack, 0".

The machine being designed,ashereinbefore stated, to serve in first ruling the paper, which may be a continuous web or separate sheets, and then printingit, thelast-named operation being a continuation of that first named, or vice versa, whereby both may be performed continuously, the ruling and printing portions must be placed in proper juxtaposition with reference to each other,and the pressure or holding strings a must extend from the ruling device, through the printing device, between the cylinders Dand E,to permit the desired service. For this purpose I prefer to employ a single frame, M, to support both the ruling and printing devices, which necce ssh tates an arrangement, such, for example, as is shown in Figs. 5 and 8, for changing the course of the endless apron or cloth N, to avoid the necessity of passing it with the strings n between the cylinders, which would obviously interfere with the printing operation. I prefer to accomplish this by passing the apron orcloth about a cylinder, over rollers m and m and Z and I, though the apron could be in two parts, each forming an endless apron, as indicated by the dotted lines min Fig. 5, and passing, respectively, at the adjacent ends around the rollers m and Z, (rendering unnecessary the rollers m and Z,) which,though not so desirable, would clear the space between the cylinders D and E. WVhatever the particular juxtaposition, however, of the ruling and printing devices with relation to each other, strings or tapes u must extend from the former between the cylinders to hold the convey ed paper and permit the continuous opera tion aforesaid, the roller Z being provided with the usualcircumferential grooves to permit the strings n to be set when required to avoid type on the cylinder D.

The throw-off device hereinbefore described serves by pressing down upon the handle of the lever L to raise the form-cylinder. D away from its companion cylinder- E when it is desired to prevent the printing operation in case and to prevent the movement of the cylinder D farther than is necessary in throwing it off or on suitable stops 7c, and is, Fig. 3, are provided to limit the movement of the arm 19.

For fastening readilyand securely the blanket Ortympan 0 upon the impression-cylinder, I provide, the mechanism shown in Figs. 5 and 6 by recessing the cylinder longitudinally to form a wedge-sh aped groove, t, and providing sharpprojections or barbs, as h, in the groove upon which to catch the blanket at one edge, the opposite edge, by folding the blanket around the cylinder, being fastened into the groove by means of a wedge, h, forced over it into the groove.

The sectional feature of the cylinder is very useful in printing the same matter on sheets of different dimensions. Thus where, for ex ample, printed matter is desired at certain intervalssay the top and bottom of a sheet, 9, Fig. 5requiring one form, I, for the'top and another for the bottom, the forms being for theirpurpose placed and'adjusted by the device shown in Fig. 7, instead of readjusting them for a sheet of different length requiring the same printed matter in corresponding or different places, an operation requiring great care and attendant difiiculty, the sections of the cylinder may be readily moved toward or from each other, as required, to the desired positions, and securedin place by means of the usual bolts or set-screws inserted through I the hub of each section employed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-s 1. The combination, witha ruling-machine cylinders, substantially as set forth.

3. In a combined ruling and printing machine, the combination, with the frame M, ruli'ng-pen device B, and strings n of the rnling-machine, ot'an impression-cylinder, E, and a form-cylinder, D, one above the otheron the ruling-machine crosswise of the strings a, which pass between the cylinders, and an apron or'cloth, N, separated between the cyli nders to leave an uncovered space between them, substantially as described. I 7

4. In a combined ruling and printing machine, the combination, with the frame .M, ruling-pen device B, and strings on of the ruling-machine, ofa form-cylinder, D, provided with a throw-off, substantially as described, and an impression-cylinder, the cylinders being one above the other on the ruling-machine crosswise of the strings n, which pass between them, and an apron or cloth, N, passed over rollers m at Z Z about one cylinder, to leave an uncovered space between the cylinders, and continued beyond the same, substantially as set forth.

5. The impression-cylinder E, provided with means for securing the blanket or tympan in position, comprising a wedge-shaped longitudinal groove, 2', and barbs it, within the groove, in combination with a wedge, h, substantiall y as and for the-purpose set forth.

JAMES DALE.

In presence of- HENRY HUDSON, J ULIUs W. DYRENFORTH. 

